Why pay for a FIX Engine? Over the last couple of decades, the FIX protocol has become pervasive in capital markets, providing the interoperability that enables much of today’s global institutional electronic trading.
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Why pay for a FIX Engine? Over the last couple of decades, the FIX protocol has become pervasive in capital markets, providing the interoperability that enables much of today’s global institutional electronic trading.
Read moreDiscussing the state of capital markets tech In the unusual world we find ourselves, catching up with industry peers via Zoom or Teams seems to be the only way to compare notes these days. It was great then that Toby Babb pulled a group of us together on Fintech Focus TV for an in-depth […]
Read moreRapid Addition is delighted to confirm its Executive Chairman, Kevin Houstoun, has been appointed as a Director of FIX Protocol Limited following a recent membership ballot. Kevin is appointed along with Emma Quinn, SVP, Global Co-head of Equity Trading, Alliance Bernstein, and Lou Rosato, Director at BlackRock. Kevin has had a long association with […]
Read moreLast week’s TradeTech FX event at Miami Beach brought together buy-side, sell-side, trading platforms and technology providers for two days of discussion on the current state of the FX market. This year saw a major focus on the impact of electronification of buy-side FX trading. The limited attention paid to crypto currencies perhaps reflected the […]
Read moreOptimizing economies of scale is the way to go – especially when it comes to growing in the foreign exchange space. Rapid Addition specializes in the provision of high-performance enterprise solutions for electronic trading. The firm is a pioneer in FIX/FAST and FPGA technology and offers a messaging platform that combines the benefit of software […]
Read moreLondon: Citi has appointed electronic trading platform provider Rapid Addition as one of its core FIX platform partners for currency trading, based on the company’s latency performance and scalability to meet business requirements. Citi has integrated the Rapid Addition FIX engine, as well as the Rapid Addition Hub platform into its new pricing technology for […]
Read moreThe fact that last week’s annual forex event was well attended may have had something to do with the choice of Barcelona as a venue, but more likely is testament to the current pace of evolution in this sector of the financial industry. From a purely trading perspective, the instability of the global political environment […]
Read moreFIX engine platform vendors must continuously improve performance if they are to keep meeting clients’ demands, says Rapid Addition Chairman Kevin Houstoun. Disseminating millions of quotes per second to an ever-increasing audience demands a huge amount of innovation and investment. Yet it is the only way to stay ahead of the pack and remain a […]
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